Need a simple OAuth token for a user.

David Kronenberg

Trying to get a simple OAuth token to authenticate a python script running on a private server. I just need a static token I can put in my script. Everything I've found so far says I need to create an ApplicationLink, but I don't have a web application needed to create one, it's just a scipt that's going to be running on a cron job.

MoroSystems Support

Hi David,

I think JIRA is quite strict with these security rules, which is fine for me. It uses 3-legged authentication and you will need private and public certificate as I remember. Everything is described here in detail:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-oauth-authentication/

I can see, there is simple python script which probably perform operations to get token using OAuth. It looks like it is quite old script but I'm not python developer so you'll see.

https://bitbucket.org/atlassian_tutorial/atlassian-oauth-examples/src/0c6b54f6fefe996535fb0bdb87ad937e5ffc402d/python/?at=default

Martin